Notes
Note for: Emeline E. Collins, ABT 1847 -
Name also given as "Eveline."
Notes
Note for: Amanda A. Collins, ABT 1849 -
Name also given as "Amelia" and "Ammie."
Notes
Note for: Floyd H. Collins, ABT 1851 -
"He spent his life in California. He never married."
Notes
Note for: Jacob Collins, ABT 1777 - 1 MAY 1847
From "The History of of Ritchie County (West Virginia)", 1911
Jacob Collins was the first settler on the head of the North Fork of
Hughes
River. He apparently served in the War of 1812.
Notes
Note for: Phebe Stuthard, ABT 1777 -
"Mrs. Collins was of Revolutionary stock, her father and his only brother
having served as soldiers in the Continental Army, (the latter dying
before his
return home).
Notes
Note for: Pehr Olsson, 23 MAR 1817 - 13 OCT 1892
Pere Olsson was a cobbler.
Notes
Note for: Josiah Collins, ABT 1821 -
Josiah was probably the illegitimate son of one of Jacob's daughters,
probably
Elizabeth, and was apparently raised in the Jacob Collins household. He
named
his children after those of Jacob and Phebe.
Notes
Note for: George Gregg, 1756 - 1826
"George Gregg, born 1756 and died 1826 in Tyler County, West Virginia,
married
at Goose Creek Meeting, Lincoln, Virginia, Sept. 14, 1780, Mary Gregg
born about
1759 of Thomas and Martha Gregg.
George paid a substitute for the army and made an acknowledgement Nov.
28,
1777. On July 28, 1798, George and Mary, with children, were certified
from
Friends Meeting at Goose Creek to Westland Friends Meeting, not far from
Chartier's Creek, northern Washington County, Pennsylvania. About 1800
they
moved over the mountains to Tyler County, (West) Virginia, where George
erected
the first mill two miles above Middlebourne, at a place on Middle Island
Creek
that has been known as the "Jug" or the "Jug Handle" from the earliest
times
because of a bend or loop of nearly eight miles after which the creek
comes
back to about a hundred feet from a point passed by its bend eight miles
above.
This spot was an ideal place for a mill and Greggs have lived on land
adjoining this point since the earliest times.
In 1815 George and Mary divided their property among four sons, deeding
each
seventy-eight acres; George, Jr., Thomas, William, and Samuel, the son
Levi was
deceased." --from "Quaker Greggs"
Notes
Note for: Thomas Gregg, 15 JAN 1733/34 - 1792
"Thomas Gregg, the fourth child of Thomas Gregg and Dinah Marlen was born
in
Chester County, Pennsylvania on Jan 15, 1734 a true Friend. He first
married
to Martha _____ and moved to Lincoln, Loudin County, Virginia in 1761.
By his
older brother, Michael, in 1765 he was deeded 665 acres of his father's
land
and was "the joiner of Prince William County, Virginia" according to the
old
deed. He had nine children and before his death he deeded farms to each
of his
seven sons." --from "Quaker Greggs"
Notes
Note for: Thomas Gregg, 1701 - 1748
"When Thomas Gregg died in Kennet Square, Chester County, Province of
Pennsylvania, he left a widow and eight children who were taken care of
by
property there. His eldest son, Micheal, according to law at the time
inherited all his father's property in Virginia. In accordance with his
father's wishes he divided with his brothers in 1763, deeding 665 acres
to
Thomas who deeded 332 acres of it in 1764 to his brother John, and 464
acres to
Stephen in 1763. The conveyance of Thomas to his brother John was to
help
equate the division. --from "Quaker Greggs"